FOLA showed up for his final year project defence at Unilag in an Escalade, and the internet couldn’t stop reacting. Here’s the full gist.
Afrobeats singer FOLA, real name Folarin Odunlami, pulled up to the University of Lagos for his final year project defence, and he didn’t exactly sneak in quietly. He rolled up in an Escalade.
Naturally, students noticed. A crowd formed around him almost immediately, phones out, everyone trying to catch a glimpse of the “Alone” and “Lost” singer walking into a lecture hall instead of stepping onto a stage. Honestly, can you blame them? It’s not every day your coursemate is also topping the charts.
Turns out FOLA is an Economics student at Unilag, and this detail only really got confirmed after an old chat between him and a coursemate went viral. In the screenshot, the coursemate is seen nudging him about an early morning Economics test while he was away in London. Funny how something so ordinary ended up being the proof people needed.
Of course, Twitter had to weigh in. Some people weren’t here for his outfit choice, saying he should have dressed the way his peers did for such a formal exercise. One user didn’t hold back, writing, “Could have respected the thing by dressing like his peers. I know certain lecturers that won’t allow this.”
Others took issue with the Escalade entrance itself, arguing it felt less like convenience and more like a flex, the kind only money can afford. And then there was a third group who felt the whole thing was staged for clout. One person put it bluntly: “He just wants to show off because I know he has not been going to school.”
But not everyone was throwing shade. A good number of people actually thought it was sweet that he showed up at all, Escalade or not. Balancing an international music career with university coursework isn’t exactly easy, and some fans felt he deserved credit just for staying enrolled and getting the work done.
That’s the one thing nobody seems to know. All the buzz has been about the arrival, not the actual outcome. No word yet on his results or how the presentation itself went.
